Dell POWEREDGE R710 Technical Manualbook

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DELL ™ POWEREDGE ™ R710 TECHNICAL GUIDEBOOK INSIDE THE POWEREDGE R710 ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook SECTION 1. SYSTEM OVERVIEW 6 A. Overview / Description 6 B. Product Features Summary 6 SECTION 2. MECHANICAL 7 A. Chassis Description 7 B. Dimensions and Weight 8 C. Front Panel View and Features 8 ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook SECTION 5. BLOCK DIAGRAM 19 SECTION 6. PROCESSORS 21 A. Overview / Description 21 B. Features 21 C. Supported Processors 21 D. Processor Congurations 22 SECTION 7. MEMORY 23 A. Overview / Descri...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook D. Storage Controllers 39 I. SAS 6/iR 39 II. PERC 6i 40 E. LED Indicators 41 F. Optical Drives 41 G. Tape Drives 41 SECTION 13. VIDEO 42 A. Overview / Description 42 SECTION 14. AUDIO 43 A. O...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 5 THE DELL™ POWEREDGE™ R710 The Dell PowerEdge R710 is designed to be the cornerstone of today’s competitive enterprise. Engineered in response to input from IT professionals, it is the next-gener...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 6 SECTION 1. SYSTEM OVERVIEW A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R710 will lead Dell's 11th Generation PowerEdge portfolio in key areas of dierentiation, primarily:  •Virtualizatio...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 7 From view 2.5" HDD Chassis (without bezel) FEATURE DETAILS RAID PERC 6i utilizing battery backed 256MB DDRII 667 NIC/LOM Broadcom 5809C (2 cards/4ports) USB Five (two front, two rear, one internal)...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 8 B. Dimensions and Weight Height 8.64cm (3.40") Width 44.31cm (17.44") Depth 68.07cm (26.80") Weight (maximum config) 26.1kg (57.54lbs) . C. Front Panel View and Features Fro...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 9 INDICATOR INDICATOR CODE Link and activity indicators are off The NIC is not connected to the network Link indicator is green The NIC is connected to a valid network link at 1000 Mbps Link indicator is ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 10 I. Fans Fans Five hot-swappable fans are mounted in a fan gantry that is located in the chassis between the hard drive bay and the processors. Each fan has a blind mate 2x2 connector that plugs direc...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 11 J. Control Panel / LCD The control panel board is connected to the planar via a 60-wire ribbon cable and a separate 5-wire cable for USB signals only. The LCD plugs into the control panel through a 20...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 12 II. Bezel A metal bezel is mounted to the chassis front to provide the Dell ID. A lock on the bezel is used to protect un-authorized access to system peripherals and the control panel. System status v...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 13 Section 3. Electrical A. Volatility See Appendix A of this Technical Guidebook B. ePPID (Electronic Piece Part Identification) ePPID is an electronic repository for information from the PPID label th...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 14 SECTION 4. POWER, THERMAL, ACOUSTIC A. Power Eciencies One of the main features of the 11th generation of PowerEdge servers is enhanced power eciency. PowerEdge R710 achieves higher power eci...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 15 C. Power Supply Specifications AC POWER SUPPLY (PER POWER SUPPLY) Wattage 870 Watt (High Output) 570 Watt (Energy Smart) Voltage 90-264 VAC, autoranging, 47-63Hz Heat Dissipation 2968.6 BTU/hr maximum...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 16 D. Environmental Specifications TEMPERATURE Operating 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F) with a maximum temperature gradation of 10°C per hour. Note: For altitudes above 2950 feet, the maximum operati...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 17 1 Does not include the power supply handle or ejection tab F. Maximum Input Amps Maxinputcurrent(HighOutput):12A@90VAC,6A@180VAC Maxinputcurrent(EnergySmar...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 18 H. Acoustics The acoustical design of the PowerEdge R710 reflects the following:  •AdherencetoDell’shighsoundqualitystandards.Soundqualityisdierentfrom...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 19 SECTION 5. BLOCK DIAGRAM Figure: PowerEdge R710 Main Components ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 20 1. Embedded Network Interface Ports (4) 2. PCIe Gen2 Riser / Slots 3. Broadcom 5709c Network Interface Chip 4. PCIe Gen2 Riser / Slots 5. iDRAC6 Enterprise (Optional) 6. iDRAC6 Express / Lifecycle Con...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 21 B. Features Keyfeaturesofthe5500series2Sprocessor(NehalemEP)include:  •Fourortwocoresperprocessor  •Twopoint-to-pointQu...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 22 MODEL SPEED POWER CACHE CORES E5530 2.40GHz 80W 8M 4 E5520 2.26GHz 80W 8M 4 L5520 2.26GHz 60W 8M 4 E5506 2.13GHz 80W 4M 4 L5506 2.13GHz 60W 4M 4 E5504 2.00GHz 80W 4M 4 E5502 1.86GHz 80W 4M 2 MODEL SPEE...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 23 SECTION 7. MEMORY A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R710 utilizes DDR3 memory providing a high performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. The ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 24  •OnechannelperCPUpopulated:   •ThisisasimpleMemoryOptimizedmode.Mirroringisnotsupported. The PowerEdge R710 memory interface supports...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 25 The table below shows the memory populations and the maximum frequency achievable for that configuration. DIMM TYPE DIMM 0 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 # OF DIMMS 800 1066 1333 UDIMM SR 1 DR 1 SR SR 2 SR DR 2 DR ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 26 CPUs NHM-EP Platform Memory Overview • Platform capability (18 DIMMs): – Up to 3 channels per CPU – Up to 3 DIMMS per channel • Memory Types Supported: – DDR 1333, 1066, and 800 – Reg...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 27 E. Supported Configurations MEMORY MODE RDIMM MEMORY MODULE SIZE MEMORY SOCKETS SINGLE PROCESSOR DUAL PROCESSOR 1 2 3 PHYSICAL MEMORY (GB) AVAILABLE MEMORY (GB) PHYSICAL MEMORY (GB) AVAIL...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 28 MEMORY MODE RDIMM MEMORY MODULE SIZE MEMORY SOCKETS SINGLE PROCESSOR DUAL PROCESSOR 1 2 3 PHYSICAL MEMORY (GB) AVAILABLE MEMORY (GB) PHYSICAL MEMORY (GB) AVAILABLE MEMORY (GB) 4 5 6 MIRR...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 29 SECTION 8. CHIPSET A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R710 planar incorporated the Intel 5520 chipset (code named Tylersburg) for I/O and processor interfacing. Tylersburg is designed to support ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 30 Intel Direct Media Interface (DMI) The DMI (previously called the Enterprise Southbridge Interface) connects the Tylersburg IOH with the Intel I/O Controller Hub (ICH). The DMI is equivalent to a x4 ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 31 B. Supported ACPI States Advanced Configuration and Power Interface – A standard interface for enabling the operating system to direct configuration and power management. TheNehalemprocessor...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 32 Table: Nehalem P-State Projections C. I 2 C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) What is I 2 C? A simple bi-directional 2-wire bus for ecient inter-integrated circuit control. All I 2 C-bus compatible device...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 33 SECTION 11. I/O SLOTS A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R710 requires two PCI Express risers: Riser 1 and Riser 2. Each riser connects to the planar through an x16 PCI Express connector.  �...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 34 Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook POWEREDGE R710 PCI Express Gen2 Slots Slot 1: Half-Length (6.6" Factory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 connector), x4 link width Slot 2: Full-Length ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 35 B. PCI Express Risers The two PowerEdge R710 PCI Express risers provide up to four expansion slots and one internal slot as follows:  •Twox8andtwox4PCIExpressGen2s...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 36 SECTION 12. STORAGE A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R710 supports three dierent backplanes to support dierent hard drive configurations: six 3.5" hard drives, four 3.5" hard d...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 37 For mixed SAS/SATA configurations, SAS drives must be installed as a pair in drive slots 0 and 1. One mixed 2.5" and 3.5" hard drive configuration is allowed: a pair of 2.5" 10k rpm S...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 38 CONFIG TYPE CONFIGS DESCRIPTION NON-MIXED DRIVES, ALL SATA OR ALL SAS MIXED SAS/ SATA MIN 2 x SAS+1 x SATA xSAS + 6xSATA xSAS...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 39 CONFIG TYPE CONFIGS DESCRIPTION NON-MIXED DRIVES, ALL SSD MIXED SSD/ SAS MIN 2xSSD+1xSAS xSSD + 6xSAS MIN HDD MAX HDD MIN HDD MAX HDD SSD (RAID) 11 MSSR1 In...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 40 PRODUCT USAGE R710 SUPPORT SLOT PCIe CON PCIe BRACKET I/O CON RAID BBU PERC SAS/SATA PERC 6/i Integrated Internal Backplane Storage (HDD, SSD) Yes, Max 1 Storage slot x8 No x4 int x4 int 0, ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 41 E. LED Indicators Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (green/amber) LED for status info...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 42 RESOLUTION REFRESH RATE (Hz) COLOR DEPTH (BIT) 640 x 480 60, 72, 75, and 85 8, 16, and 32 800 x 600 56, 60, 72, 75, and 85 8, 16, and 32 1024 x 768 60, 72, 75, and 85 8, 16, and 32 1152 x 864 75 8, 16,...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 43 SECTION 14. AUDIO A. Overview / Description Nospeakerssupported SECTION 15. RACK INFORMATION A. Overview / Description Rack installation components such as rails are provided with the PowerEdge R...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 44 C. Rails Support for Dell 4210 & 2410 racks Support for Dell 4200 & 2400 racks without CMA Support for HP/Compaq 10XXX series racks Support for HP/Compaq 9XXX & 7XXX series racks without CM...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 45 SECTION 16. OPERATING SYSTEMS A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R710 supports Windows ® , Linux ® , and Solaris™ Operating Systems. Windows ® Support: X86 OR X64 INSTALLATION FACTORY ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 46 Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux 4.7 x86 and x64 ES/AS Available in June 2009 N/A Available in June 2009 Yes Yes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86 and x64 Standard/AP Yes N/A Shipping Yes Yes Red Ha...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 47 SECTION 17. VIRTUALIZATION A. Overview / Description Supported embedded hypervisors:  •Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008 Hyper-V  •VMware ® ESXi Version 4.0 and 3.5 update 4  �...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 48 Dell Management Console DVD: The Dell Management Console is a Web-based systems management software that enables you to discover and inventory devices on your network. It also provides advanced funct...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 49 FEATURE DESCRIPTION Faster O/S Installation Drivers and the installation utility are embedded on system, so no need to scour DELL.COM Faster System Updates Integration with Dell support automatic...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 50 A more detailed feature list for iDRAC6 Enterprise and vFlash is included in the table below. FEATURE BMC IDRAC6 EXPRESS IDRAC6 ENTERPRISE VFLASH MEDIA Interface and Standards Support IPMI 2.0 4 ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 51 FEATURE BMC IDRAC6 EXPRESS IDRAC6 ENTERPRISE VFLASH MEDIA Virtual console sharing 4 4 Virtual ash 4 Monitoring Sensor Monitoring and Alerting 4 4 4 4 Real-time Power Monitoring 4 4 4 Real-time...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 52 SECTION 19. PERIPHERALS A. USB peripherals The PowerEdge R710 supports the following USB devices:  •DVD(bootable;requirestwoUSBports)  •USBKey(bootable)�...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 53 SECTION 20. DOCUMENTATION A. Overview, Description, and List PowerEdge R710 and other 11G systems use the new enterprise documentation set. The following is a summary of some of the documents slated f...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 54 NON- VOLATILE RAM VOLATILE RAM REFERENCE DESIGNATOR QTY SIZE TYPE [e.g., FLASH PROM,  PLANAR, POWEREDGE R710 System BIOS SPI Flash Y U_SPI_BIOS 1 4MB Flash EEPROM (SPI in...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 55 CAN USER PROGRAMS OR OPERATING SYSTEM WRITE DATA TO IT DURING NORMAL OPERATION? PURPOSE? [e.g., BOOT CODE] PLANAR, POWEREDGE R710 System BIOS SPI Flash No Boot Code, System Conguration Inform...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 56 HOW IS DATA INPUT TO THIS MEMORY? PLANAR, POWEREDGE R710 System BIOS SPI Flash Loading ash memory requires a vendor-provided rmware le and loader program that is executed by booting up the ...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 57 HOW IS THIS MEMORY WRITE PROTECTED? HOW IS THE MEMORY CLEARED? PLANAR, POWEREDGE R710 System BIOS SPI Flash Software write protected Not possible with any utilities or applications and system is n...

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook 58 R710 Volatility Chart Continued. HOW IS THIS MEMORY WRITE PROTECTED? HOW IS THE MEMORY CLEARED? PLANAR, POWEREDGE R710 PERC 6/I INTEGRATED PERC NVSRAM Cong Data Storage controller rmware acce...